Text Box: Greetings Biomedical Humanities Alumni!   We thought we’d drop you a line to let you know what’s been happening at the Center for Literature and Medicine during the decade since the inception of the Biomedical Humanities program.  Frankly, we can’t believe it’s been that long.  We’ve seen a fair bit of change here and undoubtedly you have experienced more!  We want and need to hear about that. As a graduate of Hiram’s original Center of Excellence, you may want to know a bit about what we’ve been doing.   Did you know... · The Biomedical Humanities program has a permanent Faculty Chair, the Herbert L. and Pauline Wentz Andrews Professor of Biomedical Humanities?  · The founding recipient of that Chair, Professor Carol Donley, has begun her retirement, and we have started raising funds to establish a scholarship fund in her name? · That all students in our new nursing program will have the opportunity to graduate with a minor in Biomedical Humanities ? · We are about to welcome our second cohort of Accelerated Biomedical Humanities students this August? · The Literature and Medicine book series is going gangbusters, with five new titles in the works. · That there are three new programs of interest: Ethics minor, Public Leadership minor, and the Creative Writing major? · That it might be time for you to take in more Medical Humanities training as only Hiram can provide?  Consider participating in next year’s Summer Seminar Series.   We have completed our challenge grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities as of June ’06, and are now generating income from the $1 MM endowment.  The completion of the challenge means that we have the opportunity to expand the number of visiting scholars that partner with us to provide convocations, create new courses for the three week terms, and team teach with us.  It also allows us to fund creative endeavors such as the recent commissioning of Verb Ballets’ production of the short story Luis, written by Dr. Richard Selzer.   This Fall – we are in the processes of planning a symposia called Staging:  Cancer and the Arts.  We are collaborating with the Ethics, Writing, and Theater programs to link Biomedical Humanities seminars to performances of Wit (by Margaret Edson) and Sarah’s Daughters by Jeff Nisker, and visits by Tom Batiuk (creator of Funky Winkerbean), and playwright Eric Coble.   Hopefully this will give you some flavor of what’s been up with us.  As we receive your feedback, look for updated alumni info to appear on this website.  And as always, we’d love to see you!   Yours sincerely,   Sandy Madar & Colleen Fried Co-Directors, Center for Literature, Medicine and Biomedical Humanities

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